SingStar Rooms dated for PS Home

By Robert Purchese Published 11 September, 2009

Avatarty on Sony later this month.

Sony plans to add the SingStar Rooms to PlayStation Home on 24th September.

That's what the European PlayStation blog says atop a post offering new images and videos of the area.

The SingStar Rooms basically open a big disco for Home avatars to bop around in. There's a music quiz to test your knowledge on, plus an interactive dancefloor that changes genre and music depending on the dance the avatars choose to do.

That's quite clever.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • el_pollo_diablo #1 2 years ago

    And whoever said home was pointless, eh?

  • bodypopper #2 2 years ago

    @el_pollo_diablo

    Me and about three million other people ;-)
    Edited by 1 at 11/09/09 @ 12:47

  • ps3owner #3 2 years ago

    I have a home already and I don't need a fake one.

  • ps3owner #4 2 years ago

    I've changed my mind. I may use home as soon as they introduce a Vivid exclusive room/area...

  • el_pollo_diablo #5 2 years ago

    I was being sarcastic you know.

  • Doctor_What #6 2 years ago

    Now, if this had Natal support built in, and the dances were actual moves being pulled by people in other living rooms... Then that would be sad and lonely, and cross platform in a way that will never happen.

  • jonbwfc #7 2 years ago

    @Xbromber

    I think Sony know exactly what %age of PS3 owners use Home and exactly how long they use it for. That's the point. The point of Home is primarily not to provide entertainment to the PS3 owning masses, it's to provide an advertising channel to third parties. Home is not a game, it's a moving billboard. From firms selling t-shirts to advertising themed 'spaces' - who do you think paid for the Red Bull Air Racing space hmmm? - Home is there to provide 'eyeballs' to people to advertise to. I suspect Sony are getting enough eyeballs for enough minutes in home to pay for the service and to provide for some further development. The SingStar space is probably there less for people who like Singstar, as for Sony thinking it might be enough fun that a few people go out and buy SingStar because of it (and the juicy DLC that owning SingStar brings with it).

    It would not surprise me if the continuing bill for Home is met entirely by marketing departments and not be the game dev side of things at all.

  • nuanimal #8 2 years ago

    "an interactive dancefloor that changes genre and music depending on the dance the avatars choose to do"

    So if the users all do the "robot" we get Kraftwerk or something?